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Originals and typescripts of 93 letters and a tintype of Albert Frost. "Albert Henry Frost of Winthrop, Maine, author of these letters, was a farm boy of 24 who enlisted at Augusta on June 3, 1861 as a Private in Company "K" of this regiment, for a term of three years. Records of th...
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| Collection: | Albert Henry Frost Papers |
| Collection Number: | 3382 |
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| Language: | English |
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Originals and typescripts of 93 letters and a tintype of Albert Frost.
"Albert Henry Frost of Winthrop, Maine, author of these letters, was a farm boy of 24 who enlisted at Augusta on June 3, 1861 as a Private in Company "K" of this regiment, for a term of three years. Records of the Office of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine show that Frost was 5 feet 10 1/2 inches tall, brown eyes and hair, single, and by occupation a farmer. Killed in action at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2nd, 1863.
These letters, written to the members of his family, show a matureand thoughtful mind for a boy of his years and while his opinions changed on many points as the Civil War progressed, his patriotism and strong religious principles stand out from the faded handwriting composed almost a century ago by some camp fire.
Frost's regiment, the Third Maine Volunteer Infanty, had an excellent reputation, listed as one of 'Three Hundred Fighting Regiments' in Fox's 'Regimental Losses.' Its first Colonel, O. O. Howard, later a Major General in command of the Army of the Tennessee was greatly beloved by his men and Frost again and again refers to him as a Christian gentleman and soldier.
These letters loan to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by Mr. Philip B. Knowlton of Radnor, Pa. came down in the family of Mr. Knowlton as Frost was his mother's half-brother. In all there are 93 letters for the period June 9, 1861 to June 8th, 1863. A little less than a month after the last letter Frost had been killed in the fighting in the Peach Orchard on the second day at Gettysburg, where the 3rd Maine, with only 210 officers and men in action, lost 122 while holding a skirmish line against the Confederate attack on Sickles' Third Corps." |